substitution

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sub=sti=tu=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

substitution, n. [L. substitutio: cf. F. substitution.].

•  The act of substituting or putting one person or thing in the place of another; as, the substitution of an agent, attorney, or representative to act for one in his absense; the substitution of bank notes for gold and silver as a circulating medium.  [1913 Webster]
•  The state of being substituted for another.  [1913 Webster]
•  The office or authority of one acting for another; delegated authority.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  The designation of a person in a will to take a devise or legacy, either on failure of a former devisee or legatee by incapacity or unwillingness to accept, or after him.  Burrill.  [1913 Webster]
•  The doctrine that Christ suffered vicariously, being substituted for the sinner, and that his sufferings were expiatory.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act or process of substituting an atom or radical for another atom or radical; metathesis; also, the state of being so substituted. See Metathesis.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

substitution

agent, alienation, alternate, alternative, amends, analogy, atonement, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, backup, balancing, blame-shifting, change, changeling, changing, commutation, comparison, compensation, copy, counteraction, counterbalancing, counterfeit, decompensation, defense mechanism, deputy, dereism, dereistic thinking, displacement, dissociation, double, dummy, emotional insulation, equal, equivalent, ersatz, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, exchange, expiation, fake, fantasizing, fantasy, fill-in, flight, ghost, ghostwriter, imitation, indemnification, indemnity, interchange, interchanging, isolation, lex talionis, locum tenens, makeshift, metaphor, metonymy, negativism, next best thing, offsetting, overcompensation, personnel, phony, pinch hitter, projection, proxy, psychotaxis, rationalization, recompense, rectification, redress, relief, reparation, repayment, replacement, replacing, representative, reserves, resistance, restitution, retaliation, revenge, ringer, satisfaction, second string, secondary, sign, sociological adjustive reactions, spares, stand-in, sub, sublimation, substituent, substitute, succedaneum, superseder, supplanter, supplanting, surrogate, swap, swapping, switch, switching, symbol, synecdoche, third string, token, understudy, utility player, vicar, vice-president, vice-regent, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal

ROGET THESAURUS

substitution

Transfer

N transfer, conveyance, assignment, alienation, abalienation, demise, limitation, conveyancing, transmission, enfeoffment, bargain and sale, lease and release, exchange, barter, substitution, succession, reversion, shifting use, shifting trust, devolution, alienable, negotiable, estate coming into possession.

Substitution

N substitution, commutation, supplanting, metaphor, metonymy, substitute, ersatz, makeshift, temporary expedient, replacement, succedaneum, shift, pis aller, stopgap, jury rigging, jury mast, locum tenens, warming pan, dummy, scapegoat, double, changeling, quid pro quo, alternative, representative, palimpsest, price, purchase money, consideration, equivalent, substituted, ersatz, phony, vicarious, subdititious, instead, in place of, in lieu of, in the stead of, in the room of, faute de mieux.